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01 May 1966 Comments News and comment Retirement of E . M. Nicholson from the Nature Conservancy.--By far the most significant development in the field of conservation in Britain in the years since the last war has been the establishment of the Nature Conservancy and its subsequent growth int...

Letters

01 May 1966 Comments Letters The identification of the Hampshire Cetti's Warbler Sirs,--The letter from Dr. C. Suffern on the subject of the Hampshire Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti (Brit. Birds, 56: 516-518) contains so many mis-statements that a detailed exposure would be tedious bot...

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01 May 1966 Comments Reviews Project Mat: the conservation and management of temperate marshes, bogs and other wetlands. Volume i, Proceedings of the Mar Conference, compiled by the IWRB/MAR Bureau under Dr. L. Hoffmann; IUCN Publications new series, no. 3, 1964; 475 pages; F.25 or &...

Notes

01 May 1966 Comments Notes Surface-feeding and up-ending by Goosander.--In December 1965 and early January 1966, at Chew Valley Lake, Somerset, one and sometimes two female Goosanders Mergus merganser regularly fed close to the shore in shallow water near the mouth of a small strea...

More examples of the best recent work by British bird photographers

01 May 1966 Comments Main paper work by British bird-photographers. As always, the choice has been difficult, but once again, other things being equal, some preference has been given t o photographs of species which have n o t previously appeared in the series and also to ones by new or...

The bird population succession at Newborough Warren

01 May 1966 Comments Main paper N E W B O R O U G H W A R R E N is a sand-dune system of some 3,000 acres (about 1,200 hectares) situated on the south-west coast of Anglesey. Half of the area has been declared a National Nature Reserve, while the other half is a state forest. Apart from...

The winter feeding of the Purple Sandpiper

01 May 1966 Comments Main paper studies of the feeding habits of shore birds have largely been concerned with a bird species and one prey species at a time. A series of papers by Dewar (1908, 1910, 1913) described the predation of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostrakgus on mussels Mytilus e...

Recent reports: September to December

01 February 1966 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary contiaues the one published ia December (firit. Birds, 58: 527-528) and is confined to the rarities in the last quarter of 1965. The great fall of migrants in early September wa...

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01 February 1966 Comments News and comment Ornithological news from the U.S.S.R.--The 4th All-Union Ornithological Conference, held in the beautiful central Asian city of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R., from 1st to 7th September 1965, was attended by 263 delegates, three of whom came from western ...

Letters

01 February 1966 Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ...

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More examples of the best recent work by British bird photographers

The bird population succession at Newborough Warren

The winter feeding of the Purple Sandpiper

Recent reports: September to December

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